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Isn't Tap tap see amazing? (self.Blind)
submitted by bradley22
Hi.
I was just thinking about how much we can do on the Iphone and thought about tap tap see. It's an amazing app. It uses AI to tel you what things are and is completely free.
What apps blew you away with how awesome they were when you first started using them?
For me the list is:
Tap tap see.
Blindsquare, I don't use it alot but it is still amazing.
Be my eyes. It's an app that allows a sighted person to see what your video camra sees and they can help you with tasks you would do every day.
I was just thinking about how much we can do on the Iphone and thought about tap tap see. It's an amazing app. It uses AI to tel you what things are and is completely free.
What apps blew you away with how awesome they were when you first started using them?
For me the list is:
Tap tap see.
Blindsquare, I don't use it alot but it is still amazing.
Be my eyes. It's an app that allows a sighted person to see what your video camra sees and they can help you with tasks you would do every day.
Marconius 6 points 5y ago
It is worth noting that Tap Tap See is not reliant on AI, rather they use Amazon Turk, where someone random from around the world will see your image pop up in theirwork queue and describe it quickly for a few cents. The description you get is human made which is why it can be inconsistent with the info they provide.
bradley22 [OP] 3 points 5y ago
Oh really? I did think that the descriptions sounded to good to be true for an AI. Having said that if you go to the tap tap see website it says the following. TapTapSee is a mobile camera application designed specifically for the blind and visually impaired iOS users, powered by the CloudSight.ai image recognition API.
awesomesaucesaywhat 5 points 5y ago
I did amazon Turk for a bit and they want the image descriptions to be short and to the point. The guidelines I had actually said to avoid complete sentences and use key words
bradley22 [OP] 1 points 5y ago
well that kind of sucks. I'd not mind waiting a bit longer for a sentence or three compared to key words.
EruptingEdges 1 points 5y ago
The AI needs to be taught. That's what the humans on Amazon Turk are often doing. It prefers keywords because the point is teaching it to recognise pictures, and not teaching it to write in well formed English sentences.
Nighthawk321 1 points 5y ago
I actually hate Tap Tap see, haha. I like Camfind more for recognizing pictures. Anything else goes to Seeing AI: I use that app every day.
bradley22 [OP] 1 points 5y ago
One of these days we will get seeing AI in the UK app store.
Nighthawk321 1 points 5y ago
I wonder why it isn't? It blows any other app out of the water.
bradley22 [OP] 1 points 5y ago
I think they're making sure it's stable or something. Would you say it's better than tap tap see?
fastfinge 1 points 5y ago
Seeing AI is the app I find most amazing. Though the app I use most regularly is voice dream reader.
-shacklebolt- 2 points 5y ago
Seconding voice dream reader, it is great. It works with a lot of different book sources and filetypes and has good voices and controls for playback. There are some extra features I would like, but I've definitely gotten more than my money's worth on this app.
bradley22 [OP] 2 points 5y ago
I would like to test seeing AI but it's not in the UK yet and no, i can't be bothered to make a US account for this app. I'll wait for it to come out in the UK. i've not tried voice dream reader. I have Ibooks and when I want to read books, I use that.
fastfinge 1 points 5y ago
The website captionbot.ai is sort of similar, at least for describing scenes and images. It just doesn't offer products and OCR. But it uses the same technology under the hood.
As for Voice Dream Reader, it can read books from bookshare, and my local blindness library, directly in the app. So it's much easier than iBooks for me.
As for Voice Dream Reader, it can read books from bookshare, and my local blindness library, directly in the app. So it's much easier than iBooks for me.
bradley22 [OP] 2 points 5y ago
Awesome. I heard about caption bot and tried it a couple of times. It's not bad and will keep improving.
fastfinge 1 points 5y ago
I'm sure it will. Also, apparently the image captioning technology will be built into the next major update of Windows 10 coming out in October. I'm not a Windows insider, so I don't know how well that works. But based on how amazing the NVDA and Windows OCR integration is, I have sky high hopes.
themmama 1 points 5y ago
Yes, it's easy to use. I love it. I also like be my eyes for more in-depth helper.
bradley22 [OP] 2 points 5y ago
Be my eyes is quite amazing.
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